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...time domestic box-office champ (in fake dollars). In theaters worldwide, Avatar is already the all-time No. 1 and the first picture ever to cross the $2 billion mark. Since the movie's earnings fell only 14% from last weekend's - every other returning film in this week's top 10 saw at least twice as big a drop - the Avatar avalanche will continue for another few weeks. The only dents Cameron suffered this week were to his pride: Avatar lost the top awards given out by the directors' and producers' guild to the Iraq-war drama The Hurt...
Warner Bros., which released Edge of Darkness, surely hoped the Gibson movie would do the business of the studio's first 2010 hit, The Book of Eli, the postdoomsday Western starring Denzel Washington, 55. In its third week, Eli has earned nearly $75 million. Instead, Edge looks to approximate the mediocre gross of last year's State of Play, also based on a six-part BBC political thriller, and also starring an Oscar winner (Russell Crowe) in need of a hit. Tip to Hollywood remakers who try synopsizing the madly complex plot of an acclaimed British mini: at least change...
...flinty hero types who made their names in the 1970s. Sixty-seven-year-old Harrison Ford, a.k.a. Han Solo, lent his sullen machismo to Extraordinary Measures, the first theatrical release from CBS Films - but this do-gooder drama had a made-for-TV feel, and after a cruddy opening week, it fell into the abyss, with a $2,575,000 weekend take in 2,549 theaters. The disease-of-the-week movie has no miracle treatment in sight; expect it to expire shortly...
...Avatar, $30 million; $594.5 million, seventh week 2. Edge of Darkness, $17.1 million, first weekend 3. When in Rome, $12.1 million, first weekend 4. Tooth Fairy, $10 million; $26.1 million, second week 5. The Book of Eli, $8.8 million; $74.4 million, third week 6. Legion, $6.8 million; $28.6 million, second week 7. The Lovely Bones, $4.7 million; $38 million, eighth week 8. Sherlock Holmes, $4.5 million; $197.6 million, sixth week 9. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, $4 million; $209.3 million, sixth week 10. It's Complicated, $3.7 million; $104 million, sixth week...
...President on Wednesday may have reassured Americans that the state of the Union is "strong," but, just the week before, a group of Vermont secessionists declared their intention to seek political power in a quest to get their state to quit the Union altogether. On Jan. 15, in the state capital of Montpelier, nine candidates for statewide office gathered in a tiny room at the Capitol Plaza Hotel, to announce they wanted a divorce from the United States of America. "For the first time in over 150 years, secession and political independence from the U.S. will be front and center...